Gas range top



Sept. 15, 1931.

w. H. GUENTHER 1323539 GAS RANGE, TOP

Filed Jan. 51. 1930 A TTORNE Y.

Patented Sept. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. GUENTHER, or DETROIT, MICHIGAKIASSIGNOR T0. DETROIT-meme s'rovn COMPANY, or nmnorr, MICHIGAN, .A- CORPORATION on MICHIGAN r GAS nANen'ron Application filed January 31,1930. Serial N5. 425,042. r I

[? made of a solid sheet of material provided with large apertures for the burner plates, as contrasted with those made in the form of a grille or ridiron, provided with portions integral t erewith for supporting the burner plates.

In gas range tops of the so-called fast cooking type in which a substantially solid sheet of material is supported above the burners, great difficulty has been experienced in providing flues for the escape of the products of combustion. It has been proposed to provide a number of apertures or holes, running through the top or cover, from the bottom to the top thereof, to provide flues for the products of combustion from the burners, but these have been found objectionable because in the event that the housewife places a cooking vessel over these holes, the latter are stopped up and their object is defeated.

It is an object of the present invention, therefore, to provide a top or cover in which apertures or fines are provided for the purpose above described, the apertures, however, extending through the side wall of the cover so that they cannot be stopped up by having cooking vessels placed over them.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cover plate whose top surface is above the to surface of the frame and one or more 0 whose edges are provided with notches or scallo s to form flues for the purpose above descri ed.

A further object is to provide a gas stove in which means are provided which will prevent the formation of a dead heat space between the burners and the cover or top of the stove.

Other objects will readily occur to those skilled in the art upon reference to the following description and the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 shows a gas range of a common type provided with the top or cover plate of the present invention.

is a plan'view of a corner of my cover plate and Fig. 3 is a section of the frame and cover plate of a gas range, a burner being shown posed the cover plate 12 of my invention.

The latter is made thick enough to project above the top surface of the frame as seen best in Fig. 3, and is provided with the usual removable burner plates 13 closing the burner plate holes 14:. Notches 15 are provided in one or more,of the edges of the cover plate and as will be seen in Fig.

3, the products of combustion from the burners 16 will escape through these notches so that proper circulation of air to and from the burners will not be precluded, and so that the formation of a dead heat space above the burners is prevented, even when the burner plates 13 are, as shown, disposed over the holes or apertures 14, and when a portion of a cooking vessel 17, shown diagrammatically, is disposed in a manner heretofore considered objectionable, that is to say, over the flues 15 in the cover plate.

In view of the fact that the notches 15 of my invention open at the side of the cover as well as at the top, the cooking vessel does not obstruct the flow of gases through the notches, the gases escaping around the edge of the cooking vessel.

It will be seen, therefore, that the present invention provides a construction in which the products of combustion can readily escape from the burner in the case of closed or fast cooking top stoves, even when i a cooking vessel has been moved to a position heretofore considered objectionable.

Now having described the invention and the preferred embodiment thereof, it is to be understood that the said invention is to be limited, not to the specific details herein set forth, but only by the scope of the claim which follows.

I claim In a gas range, a burner section provided its 71 a. Lazar with a peripheral top frame 10 having a large central opening therein, a cover 12 for said opening and forming substantially the entire effective top of the burner section and provided with a plurality of relatively small openings 14 for lids, gas burners under said lid openings, the cover having a plul'ality of notches 15': cut in its side edges to provide lines for the escape of products of combustion from said "Burners,

the notches-extending intothe frame open: 7 ing within the margin of the edge of the frame opening, the cover being provided with a plurality of lids 13 in said lid openings, the top surface ofvthe lids being flush with the top surface of the cover. WILLIAM GUENTHER.

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